Aaron's Daily WWW Newspaper

AMSTERDAM - Investigators took detailed photos of the wreckage of a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 and analyzed black box recordings Thursday, trying to piece together why the plane lost speed and plowed into a muddy field, killing nine people and injuring 86.

LOS ANGELES - Low-fat, low-carb or high-protein? The kind of diet doesn't matter, scientists say. All that really counts is cutting calories and sticking with it, according to a federal study that followed people for two years. However, participants had trouble staying with a single approach that long and the weight loss was modest for most.

NEW YORK - "American Idol" hopeful Nick Mitchell didn't win over the judges with his singing, but his over-the-top style clearly qualified as comedy.

DENVER - A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket.

MARANA, Ariz. - Tiger Woods birdied his first hole following an eight-month layoff after knee surgery and says he's pleased with his golf game. The world's No. 1 player says it felt "like business as usual" after beating 33-year-old Brendan Jones in a first-round match at the Accenture Match Play Championship with a 3-up victory. Woods is a three-time winner of this event.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will forecast a 2009 deficit of $1.75 trillion in a budget proposal on Thursday that sets goals of overhauling the healthcare system and shoring up the U.S. economy.

DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Thursday it expects auditors to cast doubt on the automaker's ability to remain viable as it endures the worst market in decades.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. banking regulators are not pursuing nationalization of troubled institutions struggling to shed toxic assets from their balance sheets, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Guantanamo prison is "well-run now," with no signs of inmate mistreatment, but the Obama administration remains determined to close it, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Wednesday after a visit this week.

LONDON (Reuters) - France, Germany and Britain are proposing a tough list of additional sanctions to be imposed against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Thursday.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Mutinous members of a paramilitary unit in the Bangladesh capital surrendered their weapons on Thursday as tanks surrounded their headquarters after a second day of gunfire in a mutiny that killed about 50 people.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Differences over Palestinian statehood are likely to scupper Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to forge a broad government with his main rival, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, an official of his Likud party said on Thursday.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico promised on Wednesday to pour more troops into a northern border city at the heart of the country's drug war, where a meeting of federal officials was rattled by bomb scares earlier in the day.

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday warned thousands of mutinous border guards to surrender immediately or face "tough action" as their revolt spread outside the capital Dhaka.

LONDON (AFP) - The Royal Bank of Scotland posted Thursday a 2008 loss of 24.1 billion pounds -- the largest in British corporate history -- because of the credit crunch and the mis-timed takeover of ABN Amro.

CAIRO (AFP) - Rival Palestinian factions met Thursday for Egyptian-brokered talks aimed at ending their long-running feud and paving the way for a unity government that could work with the international community.

AMSTERDAM (AFP) - Safety experts on Thursday hailed the "miracle" that limited the death toll from the crash of a Turkish Airlines jet at the Amsterdam airport, as dozens of investigators pored over the wreckage.

PARIS (AFP) - A worldwide team of scientists said the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was swiftly evolving to avoid the body's immune defences, a phenomenon that adds to the challenge of crafting an AIDS vaccine.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama's budget, to be unveiled Thursday, projects a whopping 2009 deficit of 1.75 trillion dollars and outlines aggressive plans to fix the US economy and its health care system, according to details leaked to the US media.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Fast bowler Dale Steyn ripped out both Australian openers as the tourists were put under pressure on the first day of the first Test against South Africa at the Wanderers Stadium Thursday.